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The Austrian Version of the English Enclosures III
The State abolition of the guild system, State authorization of usury, and the concentration of economic power in the hands of a few all worked together for the oppression of the working man. The Industrial Revolution was subjecting masses of hapless human beings to forms of exploitation and degradation inconceivable in Catholic social order.
Three Strategies for Evasion
While one is hardly surprised to find dissent from Catholic teaching among liberal Catholics, it is just as common to find it among conservative Catholics. These latter, however, since they see themselves as faithful adherents to Catholic doctrine, necessarily must create some strategy of disguising their dissent from Catholic teaching.
The Austrian Version of the English Enclosures Part II
Increased poverty? An outraged sense of dispossession among the village poor? But according to Thomas Woods, citing Mingay’s book six times in two pages, enclosure had nothing to do with poverty or dispossession.
The Austrian Version of the English Enclosures
Why are the past fifty years of scholarship on the enclosures more reliable than the past two centuries of scholarship? We are talking about the dispossession of non-owners from the commons by both large and small “owners,” whose purported titles ultimately derived from the massive Henrican theft of Church lands that paved the way for English capitalism.
Can Mises Be Baptized?
Money flows like water for these people and is used in an attempt to baptize Mises. Still, there is one scholar who was absolute in his opposition to such a notion, who declared, over and over again, the fundamental opposition between the Austrian School and any genuine understanding of Christianity. That scholar was Ludwig von Mises.
Exposing the Dangerous Premises of Economic Liberals
If a crisis such as the terrorist attacks in New York were to occur and people were deprived of their homes, is it just to increase the cost of a hotel room by 185% simply because more people want rooms?
A Resolved Tension
The question, then, becomes whether the position held by Woods and those like him hold up in light of what the Church has said regarding her own competency in these matters. In brief, do Catholic libertarians of this kind speak of the Church as the Church speaks of herself?
Individualism and the State, Part II
Leo XIII clearly argues that not only does man exist in society by nature, but that man exists in the state by nature; and further, that the state, “no less than society itself,” is a natural institution with God at its origin.